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Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (IATA: DCA), a public airport serving Washington, D.C., which opened in 1941; College Park Airport (IATA: CGS), a public airport serving the College Park/Riverdale Park/University Park area, is the oldest public airport still operating in the United States
The authority's headquarters is located less than 1 mile (1.609 km) from Reagan National Airport in the Crystal City neighborhood of Arlington County, Virginia. [2] [8] A third major airport in the Washington region, Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) is located 9 miles (14.48 km) south of downtown Baltimore.
The term "hub" is used by the FAA to identify busy commercial service airports. Large hubs are the airports that each account for at least one percent of total U.S. passenger enplanements. Medium hubs are defined as airports that each account for between 0.25 percent and 1 percent of the total passenger enplanements. [1]
The airport has three intersecting runways - 1/19 (7169' x 150' / 2185m x 46m), 15/33 (5204' x 150' / 1586m x 46m) and 4/22 (5000' x 150' / 1524m x 46m). All aircraft typically use Runway 1/19, although Commuter and General Aviation aircraft sometimes use Runway 15/33, when requested by ATC due to traffic volume or when winds favor that runway.
Washington Dulles International Airport (/ ˈ d ʌ l ɪ s / DUL-iss) (IATA: IAD, ICAO: KIAD, FAA LID: IAD) – commonly known by its former name of Dulles International Airport, by its airport code of IAD, or simply as Dulles Airport – is an international airport in the eastern United States, located 26 miles (42 km) west of downtown Washington, D.C., in Loudoun and Fairfax counties in ...
An aerial view of BWI Marshall Airport with downtown Baltimore in the background in September 2009. Planning for a new airport on 3,200 acres (1,300 ha) to serve the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area began in 1944, just prior to the end of World War II, when the Baltimore Aviation Commission announced its decision that the best location to build a new airport would be on a 2,100-acre ...
Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, the second-busiest airport in North America with 73,362,946 passengers in 2022 Mexico City International Airport, the busiest airport in North America outside the United States for the third year in a row In 2022, Montréal-Trudeau International Airport saw the largest recovery in passenger traffic with a 207.1 percent increase in passengers over 2021.
Northbound Yellow Line train at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in August 2018. The station opened on July 1, 1977. [1] Its opening coincided with the completion of 11.8 miles (19.0 km) [3] of rail between National Airport and RFK Stadium and the opening of the Arlington Cemetery, Capitol South, Crystal City, Eastern Market, Farragut West, Federal Center SW, Federal Triangle, Foggy ...